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jimbo1964 Wrote:

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> I love the P13.


I've cycled out to obscure areas of south London that don't even appear on maps in the past.


If you wait around long enough, a P13 will go past.


It quite possibly stops on every road in south London.

I am not sure the developer was necessarily so 'greedy' in this instance. I recall the broken-down house that stood derelict and vandalised on ths site for years. It must have cost a small fortine to have demolished this and then prepared the site for building the new flats. I can quite believe that two flats - even at the high prices of a few years back - would not have made the development viable. The flats are/were advertised as having cycle storage. I think digging out all that superfluous lawn on the Underhill Road side could perhaps have supplied off-street parking but for whatever reason they did not go with this. None of this denies how horrible the building is of course.

They don't look very nice to me. 'Luxury'? Pah!


The windows are, IMO, way too big and hellish to get curtains for. You'd have all and sundry gawping through 'em unless you kept blinds or curtains drawn. The property developers could have at least got ready made blinds for these flats. Talk about being overly exposed!


There's no way I would pay anywhere near ?200,000 for flats that are so oddly shaped and with such bizarre windows as these.

SimonM Wrote:

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> I am not sure the developer was necessarily so

> 'greedy' in this instance. I recall the

> broken-down house that stood derelict and

> vandalised on ths site for years. It must have

> cost a small fortine to have demolished this and

> then prepared the site for building the new flats.

> I can quite believe that two flats - even at the

> high prices of a few years back - would not have

> made the development viable. The flats are/were

> advertised as having cycle storage. I think

> digging out all that superfluous lawn on the

> Underhill Road side could perhaps have supplied

> off-street parking but for whatever reason they

> did not go with this. None of this denies how

> horrible the building is of course.


From what I remember this house sufered badly from subsidance and had to be shored up for some time. It was also on top od a hill. They had to dig very deeply to set the foundations of the new flats which, I guess is partly why they are so expensive.

Brendan Wrote:

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> Well I suppose the falts do have aspirations,

> aspirations to be something more than poky,

> uncomfortable boxes of glass and laminate built by

> the lowest bidder.


Run a spellcheck over your Freudian slips, you missed out a 'u'!

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